Subjects and Sovereigns reexamines the traditional bond between subject and sovereign and argues that this relationship endured as a powerful site for claims-making in the eighteenth-century British Empire.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Of Sovereigns and Subjects
- Chapter One: The Laws of Subjecthood
- Chapter Two: The Free-Born Subject's Inheritance
- Chapter Three: Real and Pretended Subjects: Mediating Subjecthood in the Mediterranean
- Chapter Four: His Britannick Majesty's New Subjects: The Rights of Subjects in Grenada and Quebec
- Chapter Five: The Promises and Perils of Subjecthood and Jurisdiction: Calcutta
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index